General

Earlier today, my 11 year old daughter sent me an email with an attached photograph.

The photograph was of a smoke detector she observed in a private medical clinic that she described as "Yucky!"

In Australia, the little gap between Christmas and New Year's Day is a time when most commercial businesses close down and people take a well earned break, but at Maintenance Essentials there is someone always at the other end of the telephone and a technician in a van.

Many of our support team, technicians and engineers continue to work as we stagger annual leave to ensure there is always a team available during normal business hours to carry out both planned and emergency maintenance.

During this time of the year, the extremes in weather demand that we have adequate resources available to respond to any emergency, and by resources, I mean we need people and equipment.

Recently I was talking to a fellow professional in the building industry who was lamenting the fact that all too often, people confuse the defined term Alternative Solution with the incorrect term "alternate solution".

In the Building Code of Australia, the defined term Alternative Solution means a Building Solution which complies with the Performance Requirements other than by reason of satisfying the Deemed-to-Satisfy Provisions.